This repositiory hosts community effort of implementing experimental APIs for Firefox WebExtensions with a goal of enabling dweb protocols in Firefox through an add-ons. The long term goal of this project is to eventually integrate this APIs into WebExtensions ecosystem.

You can help this effort in several ways:

• If there is a missing API to enable certain dweb protocol please submit an issue with clear description of:

  1. What protocol implementation requires it.
  2. What is this API would protocol implementation allow / prevent.

• Contribute code. Make sure to reach out first, then hack.

• 🥚 : In design phase
• 🐣 : Work in progress
• 🐥 : Try it out
• 🐓 : Usable

You can try this out by cloning the repo and running npm install to get all the toolchain. Assuming you do have Firefox Nighly installed you can run following demos:

Following command will launch Firefox Nighly with protocol API demo addon

npm run demo:protocol

Following command will launch Firefox Nighly with mDNS API demo addon

npm run demo:mdns

Following command will launch Firefox Nighly with FileSystem API demo addon

npm run demo:fs

Following command will launch Firefox Nighly with UDPSocket API demo addon

npm run demo:dgram

Following command will launch Firefox Nighly with a demo containing all the above

npm run demo